Hi, Whilst attempting to convert an RPM package to a deb package using alien I noticed that alien appears to have problems with preserving the ownership of files if the user accounts do not (yet) exist on the system on which the conversion is done. For this specific package the user accounts are created by scripts just before the installation of the files occurs. alien did work correctly when run on a system which had the user accounts.
I don't know how hard it would be to enhance alien to handle this. Do we need to add a note to the specification that requires that the RPM packages only rely on the ownership of files being preserved if those files are owned by user accounts required to exist by the LSB spec? Regards, Chris. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
